Cloaks Quotes

• When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Fall, Sunset

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.55

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• Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

  Rumi

  Gratitude, Life Changing, Yoga

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• Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

  Rumi

  Body, Garments, Knows

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• You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

  Og Mandino

  Winning, Self, Sound

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• There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

  Alan Moore

  Blood, Ideas, Flesh

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

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• Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Hatred, Preparation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

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• Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

  P. C. Cast

  Dream, Night, Desire

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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• I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

  J. K. Rowling

  Needs, Invisible

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• The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

  Charles Stanley

  Religious, Hype, World

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spirit, Rebellious, Rebellion

  "'Catherine de Medici expliquée' ('About Catherine of Medici')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Exercise, Power

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• Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Old Man, Hmmm

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.24

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• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grief, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 76

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• My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.

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• Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Blessing, Insomnia

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.730, Wordsworth Editions

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• I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

  Emma Watson

  Taken, Pieces, Treasure

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• There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

  Kurt Huber

  Law, Justice, Cowardice

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  I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Stars, Men

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• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

  Dorothy Day

  Giving Up, Bears, Injustice

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• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Fake People, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Liberty, Use, Prize

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• Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

  William Proxmire

  Exercise, Power, Political

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Killing Someone

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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